Depictions of Hell: Sandro Botticelli’s Drawings of Dante’s Inferno
2021年9月3日 · Botticelli’s drawings of Dante’s Inferno offer a departure from his most celebrated paintings. While the most recognized works embody eloquence and grace, his paintings of Inferno bring life to Dante’s vivid descriptions.
Divine Comedy Illustrated by Botticelli - Wikipedia
The drawings illustrate a manuscript of Dante's Divine Comedy. The entire thematic sequence of each canto was supposed to be illustrated by its own full-page drawing by Botticelli, an unprecedentedly ambitious conception.
42 astonishing Dante’s Inferno illustrations by Gustave Doré
2014年4月4日 · Doré’s illustrations for Inferno stand out for their masterful use of line art, intricate details, and dramatic shading. They vividly depict the various landscapes and creatures Dante encounters, from the fiery depths of Hell to the chilling frozen lake of Cocytus.
Painting & Artists Inspired by Dante Alighieri's Inferno - Florence Inferno
2013年9月19日 · Through Dalì’s 100 illustrations, one can find the dreams and hallucinations typical of the style of Dalì and the rawness and materiality of Dante’s Inferno. Dalì does not only want to illustrate The Divine Comedy, but to also convey all the emotions and feelings that led Dante to create his afterlife.
The World of Dante
Buoyed by the popularity of Doré's edition of the Inferno, Hachette published Purgatorio and Paradiso in 1868 as a single volume. Subsequently, Doré's Dante illustrations appeared in roughly 200 editions, with translations from the poet's …
Gustave Doré’s Hauntingly Beautiful Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno
2015年10月2日 · Dante’s poetry endures as one of our civilization’s most enchanting creations — so much so that it has inspired generations of artists to interpret and reimagine it, from William Blake’s breathtaking etchings for the Divine Comedy to Salvador Dalí’s sinister and sensual paintings for the Inferno.
Visualizing Dante's Hell: See Maps & Drawings of Dante's Inferno …
2018年6月12日 · Reading Dante’s Inferno, and Divine Comedy generally, can seem a daunting task, what with the book’s wealth of allusion to 14th century Florentine politics and medieval Catholic theology. Much depends upon a good translation.
La Mappa dell'Inferno (The Map of Hell) by Botticelli
2013年6月22日 · The Map of Hell (in Italian La Mappa dell’Inferno) by Botticelli – regularly called The Abyss of Hell or La Voragine dell’Inferno – is one of the parchments that the famous Italian painter designed to illustrate an edition of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri.
Going through Hell? See Dante’s “The Divine Comedy” in Art
French sculptor Auguste Rodin’s bronze work shows that romantic, but damning, kiss. Rodin designed this sculpture for his Gates of Hell, two bronze doors inspired by Dante’s Inferno. His iconic sculpture, The Thinker, also came from this work. The man resting his chin on his hand represents Dante.
Dante's Inferno
This section contains a comprehensive collection of Gustave Dore's illustrations of Dante's Inferno. The drawings were commissioned by the book publisher in the late 1800s, who created what is probably the definitive edition of the Dante's Divine Comedy.